Why Jainism

Author(s): Kurt Tietze
Publisher: Ratnaraya Education and Research Institute

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WHY JAINISM A long Answer to a short Question
Now that my German book on Mahavira and Ahimsa has at length seen the day of light and a few of my photographs, hopefully taken in view of some future guide to Jainism, have been provisionally printed, thanks to some generous donors of the New Dehli Green Park Jain community. I was asked how I, a Westemer, came to be drawg he religion of Mahavira. To answer this ques I can't do better than to quote the following article which was published in the February 1986 issue of Gommatavani under the heading : :,: A Foreigner in Shravanabelgola